“MuMu!” Bai Yurou saw Ning Mu coming over and looked a little surprised.
“Why are you here?”
“Wasn’t it because I was worried you couldn’t carry so much water by yourself, so I came to help. You ran really fast. I just arrived and you already finished buying.”
“Mm, I was thinking of buying them quickly and bringing them back to share with everyone.” Bai Yurou explained with a giggle.
It was a good thing she had run fast.
If she hadn’t run fast enough, she would probably have been discovered by Ning Mu taking her medicine.
“Miss, give me another plastic bag.” Bai Yurou said.
“Alright, fifty cents each.”
Plastic bags were not provided for free.
The previous one had been given because Bai Yurou had bought so much water.
If she wanted an extra one now, she needed to pay.
Fifty cents was nothing to the current Young Miss Bai.
After scanning the code, Bai Yurou handed the bag over.
Ning Mu took it, stepped forward, and packed a few bottles of drinks into it.
“Let’s go.”
Ning Mu held the plastic bag in one hand and took Bai Yurou’s hand with the other as the two of them left the convenience store together.
By the time the two returned to the noodle shop, the others had already started eating.
“Rourou bought water for everyone.”
Ning Mu said, taking out the drinks from the plastic bag and distributing them to everyone.
Everyone took the drinks one after another and expressed their thanks.
On the other side, Bai Yurou was doing the same.
“Ye Hui, I saw that you usually like drinking coconut milk, so I bought a bottle of coconut milk.”
Bai Yurou took out a bottle of coconut milk from the bag and handed it to Ye Hui.
“Thanks.” Ye Hui’s voice was as flat as always.
But Bai Yurou understood that she was actually very grateful inside.
It was just that she had always been a bit… expressionless, so she looked as if she didn’t care.
Anyway, she had rarely seen times when Ye Hui was especially angry or happy.
“Where do you all want to go play after finishing the meal?”
Seeing that everyone was present, Du Yuxuan asked.
Du Yuxuan planned to take these juniors out to play for the afternoon and only return later, at which point they would directly eat the barbecue, so they wouldn’t have to attend military training either.
Anyway, she was driving, so it was convenient to set off.
Seeing the brief silence, Du Yuxuan asked, “How many of you are not local to Moon City and just came here to study? I’m from Snow City.”
Snow City was not as developed as Moon City or Star City.
The city was true to its name, snowing all year round.
As a result, after asking, only Ye Hui alone responded, saying, “I’m from Star City.”
Alright then.
She had originally thought that if there were many non-locals among them, she could conveniently take them around the local scenic spots.
After all, she had lived in Moon City for three years and could be considered half a local.
As a result, except for Ye Hui, the others were all true locals.
If they were going to visit scenic spots, it should be them taking her around instead.
“How about going to an internet café?” Cai Xiaotong suggested.
The game-obsessed Cai Xiaotong was thinking of going to an internet café to play games for a few hours, which would just use up the time.
Conveniently, she also wanted to find a chance to recommend the game she had been playing recently to her friends.
“Internet café? Are all of us adults yet?”
Chen Shu quickly found the key problem and asked a question.
They were still only newly enrolled freshmen, so in theory there might still be people who hadn’t reached adulthood.
If they weren’t adults, they couldn’t go to an internet café.
Bai Yurou silently raised her hand and looked around.
As a result, only she alone raised her hand.
So she really was the youngest in their dormitory.
Her birthday was in September, still half a month away from adulthood.
Conveniently, her birthday fell on a weekend.
Her mother had also called recently to ask how she wanted to spend her birthday and whether she wanted to hold a high-society gathering.
She had refused at the time, saying she would invite her friends to celebrate together when the time came.
After all, she only wanted to be a laid-back young lady and didn’t want to deal with those high-society gatherings.
“There’s actually a minor, so we can’t go to the internet café. We can’t just go in to play and leave Junior Yurou outside.”
Du Yuxuan teased on the surface, but was actually rejecting Cai Xiaotong’s suggestion.
In fact, the speaker had no intention, but the listener took it to heart.
Bai Yurou sincerely felt this method was pretty good.
She was actually quite homebody-ish and didn’t have a strong desire to go out and play.
Anyway, she didn’t need to attend military training, so she might as well let the five of them go to the internet café to play while she took a taxi back to school for a nap.
After all, with her body, if she didn’t sleep for a while at noon, she would be especially sleepy the entire afternoon.
But Senior Du Yuxuan’s words were clearly not serious and were just a joke, so Bai Yurou didn’t voice her true thoughts either.
After all, doing so might make her seem a bit antisocial.
Even Ye Hui, who always spoke little and looked quite aloof, had been following them along the whole time.
She still shouldn’t make herself special.
Afterward, Ning Mu recommended going to an amusement park, but it was rejected by Young Miss Bai on the grounds that the weather was hot at noon and it would be easy to get heatstroke.
For a moment, everyone didn’t know where to go and fell into a brief silence.
After a while, a voice interrupted the quiet.
“Actually… I have a place I want to recommend. It’s not hot, and the consumption isn’t high either.”
This time the one who spoke was Class Monitor Chen Shu.
She had actually wanted to say it from the beginning, but after all, she wasn’t from 401 and wasn’t that familiar with the others.
Afraid of being rejected, she had kept quiet the whole time.
It was only after seeing that the plans everyone had proposed had mostly been rejected that she spoke up with a try-and-see attitude.
“What place?” Ning Mu asked curiously.
Chen Shu glanced at her, then swept her gaze over the others, her tone carrying a bit of hesitation and expectation.
“A cat café.”
***
In a corner of a commercial street in Moon City, a beam of noon sunlight slanted into Xixi Cat Café.
There were only two or three scattered customers inside the cat café, taking photos of the cats playing around.
At the front desk of the cat café, a young woman boss who looked about twenty-six or twenty-seven was half-reclining in a lounge chair, right under the warm light.
This person was the boss of Xixi Cat Café, Su Xixi.
Behind her was a display cabinet showing photos of all the little cats of Xixi Cat Café together with the tourists.
Su Xixi had a thin blanket draped over her feet, and a white little cat was curled up in her arms.
One hand slowly stroked along the cat’s back while the other held her phone, scrolling through short videos, seeming to enjoy the leisurely noon time.
“Naitang, look at this orange cat in the video. It hissed at the kind person who fed it, and in the end died miserably on the streets. You can’t be like this cat and repay kindness with enmity.”
Su Xixi scrolled to a video, aimed her phone at the little cat who was sleeping lazily, and said.
Naitang didn’t know whether it understood or not.
It only opened its eyes, revealing red pupils, meowed at the screen twice as if acting spoiled, then stopped looking at the phone and continued curling up in Su Xixi’s arms to lie down.
“You little lazy cat.” Su Xixi said, gave the cat’s head a few ruffles, and then continued scrolling short videos.
Right after that, her phone received a call.
The note written on it was “Biology Mom.”
The expression on her face instantly changed, and she decisively hung up the phone.
Just after hanging up, she heard the sound of the door opening, then saw several girls walking in.
This group of girls all had pretty good looks, and many of them were extremely outstanding in appearance.
There was even a white-haired, red-eyed little loli.
The moment Su Xixi saw this little loli, she even thought it was her family’s Naitang that had taken human form, so she hurriedly looked down at her feet—
Naitang was still sleeping normally.
“Welcome.”
Putting the question of whether Naitang had taken human form to the back of her mind, Su Xixi put away the stiff expression from earlier and began welcoming the guests.
Then she quickly discovered a familiar person in the crowd.
Chen Shu said in an excited tone, “Sister Xixi, I brought friends over to play.”